The following gentlemen have been Gazetted
as Commissioners of Crown Lands under the new Act, which came into force on
Thursday last:-

Port Macquarie, Mr. Henry
Oakes;

New England, Mr. G. J.
Macdonald;

Liverpool Plains, Mr. Mayne;

Bligh, Mr. G. Hunter;

Wellington, Mr. L. V. Dulhunty;

Lachlan, Mr. H. Cosby;

Murrumbidgee, Mr. H.
Bingham;

Maneroo, Mr. J. Lambie;

Port Phillip, Mr. H. F. Gisborne.

The police corps to attend these gentlemen is progressing in their
equipment. Their uniform is something like the pattern of the Mounted Police,
of the colour of a dark gray, with the trousers
lined with leather.